Children of the Forest
by Elsa Beskow
Age: 2+
Interests: little people, nature, forest, animals, fairies, family, seasons, Sweden
Children of the Forest
18 Feb 2014 2 Comments
in Books, books 2+, Classics Tags: animals, fairies, family, forest, little people, nature, seasons, winter
The Little Bookroom
06 Sep 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 6+, books 9+ Tags: fairies, Fairy Tale, fairy tale updated, helping others, Magic, morality, prince, Princess, romance, satire, short stories
The Little Bookroom
by Eleanor Farjeon
Age: 6 (read to); 9 (independent reading)
Interests: short stories, updated fairy tales, satire, magic, romance, princesses and princes, helping others, morality
Collected Stories for Children
18 Jun 2013 2 Comments
in Books, books 11+, books 8+ Tags: adventure, animals, cats, fairies, Fairy Tale, folktales, horror, Magic, monkeys, romance, travel
Collected Stories for Children
by Walter de la Mare
Age: 8+ (read to); 11+ (independent reading)
Interests: folk tales, fairy tales, animals, magic, romance, fairies, spooky stories, adventure, travel, cats, monkeys
The Water-Babies
24 Jan 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 6+, Classics Tags: bad behavior, fairies, Magic, nature, religion
by Charles Kingsley
originally published in 1863
144 pp.
Age: 6+ (read to)
Interests: fairies, magic, animals, nature, religion, bad behaviour
Next: other Victorian fairy stories – The Magic Fishbone (Dickens), The Princess and the Goblin, The Cuckoo Clock, Alice in Wonderland
Fantasia (1940)
27 Dec 2012 Leave a comment
in Ballet, Classical Music, Introduction to..., Movies, movies 3+, movies 5+, Parenting Tags: animals, birds, devil, dinosaurs, fairies, fish, flowers, Magic, music, myths, space, wizard
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Released: 1940
Rated: G
Length: 120 – 124 min. (varies depending on what version you have)
Age: some parts 3+, others 5+ (see below) Commonsense Media sez: 6 +
Scary Factor: Mickey attacks renegade broom with an axe and savagely chops it to bits; battle to the death between two dinosaurs; a gigantic devil rises over a mountain commanding a host of demons, the dead rise from their graves
Also: some modest (dare I say artful) nudity among fairies and mythological creatures; much wine drunk by very tipsy god Bacchus
Interests: classical music, fairies, mythology, dinosaurs, ballet
Next: the movie Fantasia 2000; live symphony concerts for children; Nutcracker ballet live or movie version
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Make Your Own Tutu!
27 Nov 2012 Leave a comment
in Just Fun Stuff, Parenting Tags: ballet, fairies, Princess
Thanks to Different Solutions on Facebook, here’s a no-sew tutu I think even I could make!
Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
05 Jun 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: adventure, castle, fairies, Fairy Tale, Magic, monsters, ogres, prince, Princess, royalty, violence
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1982
Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
Angela Carter, translation
Michael Foreman, illustrations
Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1982
128 pp. – 12 stories
Age: 7 +
Interests: fairy tales, adventure, magic, princesses, princes, castles, ogres
The Night Fairy
18 Dec 2011 2 Comments
in Books, books 6+ Tags: adventure, animals, birds, fairies, Magic, nature
by Laura Amy Schlitz
illustrated by Angela Barrett
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2010
117 pp., 10 chapters
Age: 6 +
Interests: fairies, magic, birds, animals, nature, adventure
Also by this author: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village (Newbery Medal Winner)
The Cuckoo Clock
28 Nov 2011 2 Comments
in Books, books 5+, Classics Tags: birds, butterflies, fairies, Magic, manners
by Mrs. Molesworth
first published in 1877
edition I read: London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1967, with illustrations by E.H. Shepard
165 pp.
Age: 5 +
Interests: magic, birds, manners, fantasy, butterflies
Rarest Kind of Best 
Why I Don’t Hate the Rainbow Fairies
14 Jan 2012 7 Comments
by Kim in Books, books 4+, Commentary Tags: fairies, Magic
The Rainbow Magic books are an addictive, seemingly endless series of early chapter books, written to a precise and repetitive formula, and certain to drive parents up the wall. Amazingly bland and devoid of character development – the two heroines are interchangeable – this franchise should incur my wrath and derision. And it did, at first.
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